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The '60s icon's body was found at her Paris home on Sunday, after she had spent Saturday night without her caregivers amid long-running cancer fight

After the macabre parcel arrived at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Monday, cops put the severed finger in a fridge they usually use to store their snacks so it could be preserved for later analysis

The UK's Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office has not advised Brits not to visit France, but it has issued a stark warning about the potential risks tourists could face, amid a week of violent protests in the country

Paris and cities across France faced a fifth night of protest and violence overnight following the shocking death of 17-year-old Nahel Merzouk which was caught on camera

Officers suffered wounds to the legs and groin, prompting a local police spokesman to say 'we have crossed a red line'

Buildings and vehicles in Paris, Lille and Toulouse were also set alight overnight by a mob fuelled by injustice following the shooting of a boy, 17, by police during a routine traffic stop

Nael M was shot dead at the wheel of a Mercedes in Paris, France, last night after a traffic stop and, as some 24 arrests have been made, his family has expressed grief

The killing was videoed in Nanterre, to the west of the French capital, on Tuesday after the youth – who is from an Algerian background – allegedly broke traffic rules

The headquarters of the 2024 Paris Olympics organisers have been searched by police looking into suspected corruption, France's national financial prosecutor's office have announced

Fulham centre-back Issa Diop had been arrested in his native France after allegedly sending death threats to his ex-partner, with the two in the midst of separating, but has since been released without charge

Dirk Raats, 71, who is in custody in Brittany suspected of attempted murder and killing a child under the age of 15, was said to have been high on drugs when he pointed his weapon towards the Thornton family, who were originally from Oldham

An unnamed 71-year-old pensioner has been arrested after British schoolgirl Solenne Thornton, 11, was shot dead at a family BBQ near Quimper, France, on Saturday night

An 11-year-old girl named as Solenne Thornon was killed in a shooting following a neighbour dispute in a village near Quimper, Brittany, in the north west of France on Sunday

Abdelmasih Hanoun, 31, appeared in court for the first time this morning after being transported from a secure police station in Annecy, the same town where he carried out a horrific attack on innocent children just a few days earlier

A lone knifeman rushed a playground and started his attack on children in strollers at 9.45am local time yesterday in a park near a lake in the town of Annecy, France

Terrifying new footage shows the moment a 32-year-old knifeman launched a frenzied attack in the French Alps, leaving four young children, including a British kid, and two adults seriously injured

French politicians have condemned this mornings attack, when a lone man allegedly stabbed five people in a small playground located on the Pâquier in Annecy

The latest raid saw three men arrive at the boutique in Place Vendome in broad daylight on Saturday afternoon, as dozens of tourists and other passers-by looked on

A mob was videoed in Notre Dame square in Grenoble on Monday, mocking the head of state on the first anniversary of him winning a second term.

Dad-of-three Youcef Matoug, 50, confessed to slaughtering, butchering and then concealing the body parts of his wife Assia Matoug after cops in Paris, France discovered her head in a sack in the historic Buttes-Chaumont Park

The female teacher died after sustaining injuries in the town of Saint-Jean-de-Luz in France at around 10am this morning when the pupil, 16, burst into the classroom and stabbed them

Married mum-of-three Assia Matoug, 46, has been named as the woman found in the Buttes-Chaumont park in Paris, France, after being identified from her fingerprints

An investigating source in Paris said the woman who was found decapitated in Buttes-Chaumont park lived locally with her husband who reported her missing earlier in February

Investigators discovered a woman's dismembered pelvis area before finding her head in a bag near a disused railway line in the southern area of the Buttes-Chaumont Park in the 19th Arrondisement of Paris in France

The former Manchester United player caused outrage for posting a video following a Champions League game between his former side and Paris Saint-Germain which contained homophobic slurs